EchoStar Spring-Loaded
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 6, 2009 : EchoStar provides time- and place-shifting technology that the company believes will be a crucial building block for TV Everywhere experiences
North American TV Trends for 2010
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 29, 2009 : Geoff Hollingworth, Director of Innovation for Ericsson, talks about the TV consumer experience for 2010 and beyond, as watching TV evolves from a passive to a participatory experience. He explains how Ericsson is developing the end-to-end infrastructure that will allow these services to be deployed across North America
Re-Inventing the Role of Service Providers
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 29, 2009 : Ericsson's Director of Marketing and Sales Support, Michael Gronovius, explains how service providers need to re-invent themselves as multimedia companies in order to stay abreast of the changing nature of the industry, where almost every new consumer offering will involve investing in higher bandwidth
Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon: Net Neutrality
LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Comments (2) October 26, 2009 : Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of Telus, shares his nearly stream-of-consciousness view on network neutrality and makes a distinction between when a carrier should support a service end-to-end and when it should hand off that responsibility to another party
Cox Business's Kristine Faulkner: Local Matters
LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Post a comment October 23, 2009 : Cox Business is making its mark by moving small and mid-sized enterprises off traditional phone networks. And, as its VP of product development explains, the company is also seeing a change in the way businesses use video, a core cable service
Verizon's Mark Wegleitner, Part II
LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Post a comment October 22, 2009 : In Part II of our interview, Verizon's SVP of Technology discusses how Verizon is integrating its core network and the challenges of software complexity when you're managing a big network
Verizon's Mark Wegleitner, Part I
LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Post a comment October 22, 2009 : In Part I of our interview, Verizon's SVP of Technology, Mark Wegleitner, discusses the changes in the transport network and how the wireless backhaul network will deal with the demands of 4G technology
Light Reading Video Poll: Do You Tweet?
LRTV Documentaries - Post a comment October 15, 2009 : Leading up to Supercomm, the BIG broadband show, here's a quick reality check on Twitter, one of the world's most popular social networking applications... Well, popular, but not as widely used as you might think
AT&T: What's Moving M2M?
LRTV Interviews - Post a comment October 14, 2009 : AT&T's Eric Krauss discusses machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies as a slowly emerging catalyst for the carrier's wireless business. Regulatory changes, tech pricing, and high-speed networks have all converged to make M2M healthier than it has been in several years
Verizon's Tony Lewis Defines an Open Network
LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Post a comment October 9, 2009 : Verizon's VP of Open Development, Anthony A. Lewis, says his company has changed the way it allows devices and applications to use its network. And they really are open now. No, really
New IPTV Services
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 6, 2009 : Ericsson's Staffan Pehrson talks about the solutions that Ericsson and TANDBERG Television are delivering to service providers and how new services can help to differentiate TV offerings as well as generating new revenue
Regulating IPTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 6, 2009 : Rene Summer, Director of Government & Industry Relations for Ericsson, talks to Georgina Burnett about how the regulations that currently affect terrestrial TV may also have an impact on IPTV
The Evolution of VoD
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 5, 2009 : Edward Allfrey, Business Development Director at TANDBERG Television, explains why people are watching more on-demand content from Pay TV operators and what service providers need to do in order to benefit from these opportunities.
New TV Services for Broadcasters
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 2, 2009 : Mario J Pino, Director of Business Development and Strategy for Middle Eastern broadcaster Etisalat, talks about the new types of TV services being demanded by younger viewers and the opportunities that IPTV service providers have to differentiate their products.
MPEG-4 HD Compression
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 1, 2009 : TANDBERG TV's VP of Product Management Carl Furgusson talks to Georgina Burnett about the improvements in MPEG-4 HD encoding and how the broadcast industry can use efficient compression to provide higher image quality over lower bandwidth
Differentiating the IPTV Offering
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 1, 2009 : Eugene Sarmiento, head of IPTV Sales Development at Ericsson, talks to Georgina Burnett about what types of new TV services younger consumers are demanding, whether the TV industry can deliver them, and how IPTV providers can differentiate their services
The Role of Home Neworking
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 1, 2009 : Peter Linder, director of Network Solutions for Ericsson, talks about the convergence of Network and Screens, the roles of IMS and Open Standards, and the the current reach of deep fiber access
Qwest Fiber Backhaul
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 30, 2009 : Qwest Wholesale VP Beth Halvorson talks about the strain on today's carrier backhaul, and how Qwest is shooting for 1-Gig so it can meet carrier needs. The company has the major carriers as customers already, and works with them to develop a strategy.
Advertising & IPTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 23, 2009 : Nick Wiggin, head of advertising strategy for Ericsson, explains the part that advertising will play in the TV of the future and the telecom operators' role in the advertising ecosystem
Barry West, President, Clearwire International
LRTV Interviews - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 22, 2009 : Clearwire's Barry West says WiMax is maturing as a technology and some new roaming agreements prove that point. He expects to see devices able to roam between different WiMax networks around the world in Q1 2010
Open IPTV Forum
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 21, 2009 : 2009 has been a successful year for the Open IPTV Forum. Six OIPF members demonstrated solutions at IBC 2009, and we take a look at some multimedia applications from Ericsson, Sharp, and Fraunhofer FOKUS that are using Open IPTV standards to deliver a compelling end-user experience
Rehan Jalil, President & CEO of WiChorus
LRTV Interviews - Dan Jones - Comments (3) September 18, 2009 : What does the packet core of a mobile broadband network actually do? And what value can it add as Internet traffic increases? WiChorus CEO Rehan Jalil explains it all for us
The Future TV Experience
LRTV Documentaries - Comments (2) September 16, 2009 : Get your 3D glasses on. Georgina Burnett talks to execs from Etisalat, PCCW, and Ericsson about the TV experience of the future
Light Reading at IBC Amsterdam
LRTV Documentaries - Post a comment September 14, 2009 : As the broadcasting and telecom industries grow ever closer, Georgina Burnett reports from Europe's biggest television tradeshow and finds out what new innovations are getting telecom service providers all excited
Watchpoint Content Management System
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 14, 2009 : Michael Adams from TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group, talks about the new Watchpoint content management system and why Pay TV operators need a multi-platform service
Cisco - Advanced IP Video Services
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment August 17, 2009 : Suraj Shetty, VP of Worldwide Service Provider Marketing for Cisco, talks to Fritz Nelson about the importance of advanced video services in the business and consumer space. Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC, gives his feedback on EANTC's independent testing of Cisco's solutions, focusing on the service delivery network, user experience, and the data center.
LSI's Secure Any-to-Any Communication
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment July 6, 2009 : LSI's multicore processors with Deep Packet Inspection are essential at a time when threats have grown more serious, both into and out of the network. We talked to industry leaders like Kaspersky and Cisco, and then got an inside look at LSI's T1000 and T2000 chips that enable DPI in high-performance environments; we also looked at LSI’s fifth-generation network processor, the APP 3000, which now encrypts and decrypts packets at up to 1.5 Gbit/s
Bauer: Telecoms Should Be Green Leaders
LRTV Documentaries - Phil Harvey - Comment (1) June 17, 2009 : BetterWorld Telecom's president Matthew Bauer says the telecom industry is in the right place to serve as an example to other industries in cutting consumption, and using network services to reduce commuting, traveling, and building expenses
Verizon's Chuck Graff: Heat Seeker
LRTV Documentaries - Phil Harvey - Comments (5) June 17, 2009 : During his keynote at the Green Telecom East event in New York, Verizon's Chuck Graff announced a new program to curb the amount of heat put out by telecom equipment in its network
Verizon's Chuck Graff: Green Power
LRTV Interviews - Phil Harvey - Comment (1) June 17, 2009 : Verizon's director of corporate network and technology, Chuck Graff, discusses his company's approach to reducing the power used by legacy telecom equipment
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